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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The contrast between the little room in Fraunces's Tavern, in which, in the Spring of 1768, a score of merchants met to organize the Chamber of Commerce and the splendid home into which the Chamber moves to-day is but a feeble indication of the change that has come over the commercial community represented by the Chamber and the great industrial and trading people of which this community is but a modest part.

November 11, 1902

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